About This Item:

Acrylic on Canvas

24”L x 3”W x 24”H

White Wooden Frame, No Glass

2019

Still Life with Specimen Jar is a recent painting by Douglas Max Utter. It was created with acrylic paint on canvas, and is presented in a white, wooden frame. It is signed on the front lower corner of the painting, and was completed in 2019. The recent still life theme in this painting is not a common subject matter artist Douglas Max Utter. It’s whimsical nature and bright, contemporary color palette signify a shift from his moody portraiture, and figurative work.

Douglas Max Utter is an award winning Cleveland based artist and writer, whose work has been shown extensively since the mid 1980’s, with over forty one- person shows in Cleveland, New York, Phoenix and Germany. Utter’s work in painting and criticism has been recognized with a 2011 Creative Workforce Fellowship, three Individual Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Best Painting Award at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show (1987), and journalism awards from the Cleveland Press Club and the Poets and Writers Guild of Greater Cleveland. He is the recipient of a 2013 Cleveland Arts Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award.